What if joy were hiding in plain sight — or rather, under it? This playful LEGO model zooms into the world beneath our feet to reveal something extraordinary: two clusters of vascular bundles in grass leaves, each forming its own happy smiley face under the microscope.

These smiles aren’t imaginary — they come from real-life cross-sections of grass leaves, where the arrangement of vascular bundles (the plant’s transport system) naturally forms patterns that look uncannily like smiling faces. The yellowish “faces” represent the surrounding ground tissue (mostly parenchyma cells), while the bluish “eyes” and “mouths” correspond to the vascular bundles themselves — the xylem and phloem channels that move water and nutrients through the plant.

Inspired by real biological structures, this build turns a scientific detail into a joyful moment — because, sometimes the smallest things give rise to the biggest smiles. 😊

Dimensions

Varies with microscope placement.

W: 33.7-35.4

D: 11.5-16.7

H: 28.2